Tuesday's Bulletin Board

Tuesday

Friends of the Eastern Monroe Public Library will host its annual dinner on Thursday, Oct. 4 at Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort, River Road, Shawnee-on-Delaware.

Friends of the Eastern Monroe Public Library will host its annual dinner on Thursday, Oct. 4 at Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort, River Road, Shawnee-on-Delaware.

Cocktails, cash bar, and hors d' oeuvres will be served at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Choice of entree consists of salmon, beef or chicken. The cost of the dinner is $27.50. Theme baskets will be offered as door prizes. Invitation packets are available at the front desk of the Eastern Monroe Public Library. Deadline for dinner reservations is Thursday, Sept. 27.

Guest speaker for the dinner will be Betsy Jackson, an educator, speaker, performer and workshop leader for more than 20 years. In 2004 she wrote and staged her first play at the Shawnee Playhouse. This year, her play, "My Mother Never Told Me," was selected from a national competition and was performed in Santa Cruz, Calif. She is presently working on a one-woman show, as well as other things.

The evening will also include a special presentation of the third annual Elizabeth Kane Award, presented for outstanding service to the library.

For more information, contact Jeanette Arnone at (570) 424-3263.

SCORE will offer a small business program titled "Starting and managing a Small Business" from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 at Monroe Career & Technical Institute, Bartonsville. The program is sponsored by ESSA Bank & Trust and Pocono Mountains Chamber of Commerce.

The program will cover legal aspects, taxes, marketing, finance, insurance, record keeping, human resources and borrowing. Cost is $40 per person and includes lunch, coffee, and instructional material.

The Pike County Correctional Facility and State Correctional Institution at Waymart will co-host the Pennsylvania Prison Wardens Conference Wednesday, Oct. 3 through Saturday, Oct. 6 at Woodloch Pines Inn and Resort in Hawley

Correctional Administrators from all over the state will take part in training seminars. Contemporary correctional issues and methods of operation will be discussed to better serve communities.

The group is also seeking donations of raffle items. For information or to make a donation, contact Kathy Cronin at the Pike County Correctional facility at (570) 775-5500.

The Church of Good Shepherd will sponsor Milford's first fall walkathon on Saturday, Oct. 20 to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure NEPA Affiliate, the American Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Milford Musical Legacy (Good Shepherd's organ fund).

Registration will be held at 9 a.m. and the walk will begin at 10 a the church, Fifth and Catharine streets, Milford. For information, call (570) 296-8123.

Second Chance Pet Adoption & Rescue has many cats and kittens available for adoption. Kittens over the age of six weeks of age have been tested for feline leukemia and FIV. They have been vaccinated, wormed and treated for fleas. For more information, visit SCPetRescue.org or call (570) 620-1023.

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